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What Should I Do That 

I Would be What 

^ze Almighty Designed. 



A SERIES OF THREE LECTURES: 

Candidates for Initiation ; 

Man's Duty ; 

Why Should I Preserve My Body, and How May I 

DELIVERED BEFORE A CLASS IN ADVANCED THOUGHT 
BY 

CHARLES EDWIN PATTERSON, 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 






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Introduction. 



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^ PRESENT this work to the reading public, 
V-J as a complement to my first work, entitled 

A Knowledge of Self ; The Key to Power. 
By the use of the two, and the third that will 
immediately follow, which will go more into detail 
relative to the instruction that mankind can receive 
from the Almighty, through nature's lessons and 
God's Symbols, as placed on the earth and in the 
Heavens, thus constituting the Trinity or a com- 
plete series of three, any ordinary man or woman, 
should they choose, can by the aid of the true 
knowledge they can glean from these three volumes, 
attain unto perfect illumination. 

I hope my readers will not pass judgment too 
hastily, because the road may seem so difficult I 
have placed before you, for you should bear in 
mind, you are working for a reward that is beyond 
price or value to be compared in dollars and cents ; 



furthermore, for a reward that endureth forever. 
Do not lay the book idly by, thinking there are 
more easy ways promised you to gain immortality 
for your soul, than the plan laid out by me, for I 
say to you in all candor, the way you have been 
taught is a man-made conception, and if you will 
but reason, your judgment will soon say, if I should 
receive, I must do. Not merely believe another 
one did it for me. Some may criticise because of 
the plain ways in which I have spoken, but when 
you are talking, or writing truths, there is only one 
way to express them, and that is in so plain a 
manner, no one, not even the child, can misunder- 
stand. It is the hidden manner of writing truths 
in the past that has kept the world in darkness, as 
regards the real requirements of mankind, whereby 
they might attain unto a higher degree of under- 
standing, and too much accepted by belief, ideas 
based upon nothing but men's opinions, which were 
as changeable as the moon, and much more 
treacherous. 

The books I present are not voluminous, but 
they express the basic principles whereby any 
mystery may be solved, from the Earth plane tothe 
Spiritual. You have always been taught what 
would take place with your soul after death; that 



it either must go to one place or another. I say to 
you as I have many times in the lessons, accept 
nothing just because it has been said to you, but 
prove all. Find the Soul as I have told you you 
could, and you can prove this. Develop it so you 
can follow it with your consciousness, and then see 
what you think of man-made opinion, that does 
not receive its promptings from the Spirit. 

Study well the second lesson of this work, that 
you may get a thorough understanding of the 
source and power of thought. Thought is really 
the cause of the manifestation, and as you mani- 
fest in life, so you are, and "from the abundance of 
the heart the mouth speaketh," hence you may ever 
know the source of the man's thought promptings, 
by his words and actions. Seek to realize the 
source of True Thought as it is ever before you in 
nature, and ever bear in mind your Reason will 
have to be used in analyzing on both the Physical 
and Psychic plane, and bear in mind further, the 
Psychic plane comprises both the Astral, and Soul 
planes. After you have a thorough conception of 
thought, true and false, then the Key is in your 
hands to unlock the mystery of man's fall, and 
when you know the Truth, "The Truth will make 
you free," Improve the opportunity and gain your 



freedom, as this is what the Lord God Almighty 
desires of, and designed for, all men. You have 
something to do, and you have got to do it, 
whether it takes one physical life or one hundred. 
If you fail to raise yourself from the lowest part 
of the cycle of necessity you are in, while in 
a physical life, your life is a failure, hence 
try it over again. God's law is immovable 
and unchangable, and endureth forever; hence 
do not expect to change it by your prayers, 
thinking you can enjoy the follies of emotion, 
passion and appetite as long as your body will last, 
and when you can keep it no longer, just say I am 
sorry, and pray a little, and that puts you on a seat 
by the side of Jesus Christ. Oh, no! It will only 
just give you a chance to try it over, that is all. 
Study these lessons so you can pass your examina- 
tion upon the first trial, as environments in the 
next physical life might make conditions for soul 
unfoldment, far less advantageous than in the life 
you are now living. By learning how to preserve 
and care for the body, as you may in the third 
lesson of this work, you can work at much better 
advantage than as though you did not know, for I 
say to you, a healthy body is the greatest blessing 
of earthly gifts. A healthy body also helps to keep 



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the Soul pure. A healthy body and a pure Soul, 

brings perfect happiness on this Earth plane, as then 

the Spirit will prompt the Soul, and you are at one 

with your Maker — the will and design of]The Lord 

God Almighty. 

C. E. Patterson, M. D. 




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LESSON I. 

Candidates for Initiation. 



^^HERE is a spiritual wave sweeping over this 
^* fair land to-day, east, west, north and south, 
that is prompting the inner nature of man, to seek 
a higher knowledge, that to him in the past, has 
been a blind faith, and he made to believe that only 
a few chosen ones would be permitted to know. 
This spiritual prompting due to the vibration as 
radiated to all mankind, from our Sun's Central 
Sun, and from thence through the Sun of our Solar 
System, brings to all men on earth, a new law or 
Dispensation, as has been described, in a recent 
work of mine entitled " A Knowledge of the Self, 
The Key to Power." This dear readers, is the 
cause of this Spiritual unrest, and all those who 
have any knowledge of the triune man, catch this 
vibration at once, and immediately begin the re- 
search, after something beyond what they already 
have. Women, and even men are investigating 



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Spiritual Circles, Christian Science, 1 Kvine & iem t, 

New Thought Journals, and not a few of both sexes 
are willing to pay a fair price to have some 
weird looking old woman to tell their fortunes with 
some old, greasy pack of cards, in the hope that 
they may learn of something in the way of a 
development for them in the future. They do not 
really know what they are looking for, but yet they 
feel there is something. The Awakening has come, 
and many are catching the vibrations, whereby a 
Soul Awakening will take place in different in- 
dividualities, many of whom, after learning of the 
true nature of this general unrest among men, will 
at once proceed to take advantage of all oppor- 
tunities offered, and will go on unto full illumination. 
Others will stop short, because of the fact that they 
really do not understand the full meaning of the 
prompting that comes to them, and of the height to 
which man can attain, and will be content with 
knowing, or of having a slight knowledge of happen- 
ings of the lower Psychic plane ; and then again, 
there will be others who will be satisfied with no 
knowledge at all, except that they have learned 
how to surrender themselves to the use and abuse 
of Elemental and Elementary forces, and very will- 
ingly part with their very life forces, as a matter 



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of business and livelihood, to those who yet are 
blind in their faith, and, through their ignorance 
and eagerness to delve into mysterious things, 
become participants in sinning against their fellow- 
man and God. I say sinning against your fellow- 
man and God ; I would also add yourself as well, 
for if you are doing something to help destroy 
your fellow-man, is it not a Sin? Some may take 
exception to this statement, but I ask you all this 
question: What is Sin? Is it not allowing your 
Soul to be guided by Elemental and Elementary 
forces, instead of allowing it to be guided by the 
Spirit? Is not sickness the result of your allowing 
Elementary and Elemental forces to take possession 
of your mind and body? Is not sin and sickness 
one and the same, according to the word of our 
Greatest Teacher? The question now arises, how 
shall I begin that I may make no mistakes? Hav- 
ing had the experience of passing through the 
degrees of Initiation, possibly not all the degrees 
unto full illumination, yet sufficient to know many 
of the laws whereby a Soul can pass over the 
Astral plane, or valley of the Shadow, and escape 
the contaminating influences that reside there, I 
take it upon myself as a duty I owe to mankind, 
and my God, to do all I can and to assist as best I 



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can in guiding hungry Souls to the mountain top, 
which the Spirit would have all men reach. The 
way is dangerous without a teacher that is familiar 
with the road, and acquainted with the influences, 
yes. and entities, that he must pass on the way to 
the higher plains. As I have said many times in 
ordinary conversation, I now repeat as an instructor 
of Souls that seek higher and true knowledge, for 
one to go into a Medium's Circle, and voluntarily 
surrender his very Soul to a blind Elementary 
force, is like unto blindfolding yourself and walking 
directly into Dante's Inferno, and should anyone 
take exception to this, I would gladly produce a 
young man that came to me within the past week, 
only nineteen years of age, who has done just the 
thing I have just advised against, and who is at the 
present time, fully under the control of some dis- 
embodied Soul, and one of the most miserable of 
men, and can in no wise rid himself of this unseen 
force without assistance from some one who under- 
stands the true nature of his troubles. Doctors, in 
general, call these cases neurasthenics, a very nice 
word to use when you do not know what the trouble 
is, and until doctors recognize the true state of 
affairs, their assistance will be of no avail to these 
poor unfortunate invalids. And I would say further, 



these obscessed cases, so to speak, do not 
come from the Mediums' Circle wholly, but just as 
many from these exciting protracted meetings; 
Methodist, Baptist, Dutch Reformed or whatsoever, 
wherever the power of suggestion is used, whereby 
the objective mind is taken possession of. Hence, 
the first law I would make for a class of mine, and 
never to be broken by a student under my instruc- 
tions, would be, never surrender your individuality 
or objective mind to any man calling himself a 
hypnotist, or mesmerist (they being one and the 
same) on this plane, and much less be hypnotized 
or entranced, if you so choose to call it, by any 
disembodied Soul on the psychic plane. To become 
entranced is only hypnotized from the other side 
of life, and I ask you, who is doing it? Many may 
say, if he only knew as much as I do about these 
things and the wonderful truths I have experienced, 
he would not talk as he does. To such I will say, I 
ran the gauntlet and came mighty near falling by 
the wayside, and thanks be to an All-wise Father, 
by the aid of my Guardian Angel, God's Messenger 
to men, I was enabled to see and hear what was 
going on in that so-called Spirit Land, and was 
saved from a life of slavery. 

Those of you who are now following my teach- 



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ings, and those that will in the future, will ob- 
serve that my instructions arc ever and eternally 
Mastership, never Slavery ; hence, it seems, no one 
could take exceptions, for it seems there is no one 
but would rather be a Master than a Slave. Some 
will say nonsense. My Guide is too good to en- 
slave, or misuse me. To such I can only say, 
"Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye 
not? and do ye not remember?" (Mark 8-18.) 
Others will work for years, night after night with 
some medium to become an inspirational speaker 
through some guide. To such I would ask one 
question : Would you consider it any honor to be 
hypnotized by the smartest man ever on earth in 
the past or present, and then you stand in front of 
the curtain and he out of sight and speak through 
you to an audience? A Punch and Judy if you 
please? You speak as long as you have vitality 
left, and then gradually come to your own self so 
you cannot be used as a mouthpiece longer, and 
even have no knowledge of things good or bad as 
you might have said during that much praised 
speech you might possibly have made. Would any 
of you enjoy this, and would you think it any par- 
ticular honor to be the mouthpiece of some hypno- 
tist to do this kind of work? This is just exactly 



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what trance speaking is, and the speaker is only a 
phonograph, so to speak, for some unseen entity to 
use whereby it may be enabled to once again mani- 
fest on this earth plain, and you the machine, that 
entity is using to ring off that much applauded 
speech. You have gained nothing except a few 
applauds of an ignorant audience. Even your own 
Soul is taken control of, and made to use the 
language of another. No development of the 
Divine part of you whatsoever. And now I ask, do 
you want such development? Or would you prefer 
to develop the true Spirit principle within yourself, 
and receive your promptings from the giver of all 
true knowledge, The Lord God Almighty? The 
question is an easy one for me to answer, and it 
seems should be for all. To those who are students 
of mine, and to all readers of my works who are 
earnest seekers after true knowledge, I would say : 
You present yourselves to me as candidates for 
initiation into the school of higher law. You are 
not as yet Initiates, even though some of you might 
have been under the instruction of a teacher who 
might have given you that title. That you may 
know what an Initiate is so you will not be dis- 
appointed in my saying to you, you are not one, I 
present to you the language of one of our best 



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modern mystics, Eliphas Levi, whom most, if not 
all Students in the higher laws will at once recog- 
nize. He defines an Initiate as follows: "The 
Initiate is he who possesses the lamp of Trismegis- 
tis, the mantle of Appolonius and the staff of the 
Patriarchs. The lamp of Trismegistis is reason 
illuminated by Science and Science is Absolute 
Truth. The mantle of Appolonius is full and com- 
plete self possession, which isolates the Sage from 
all blind tendencies; and the staff of the Patriarchs 
is the help of the Secret, and everlasting forces of 
nature." Now I ask you how many of you are in pos- 
session of all the qualifications that would entitle 
you to the name, Initiate? It may seem wrong to 
you that I should not flatter you in the progress you 
have made, rather than to show you the real truth 
just exactly as it is. To which I would answer as 
follows: It is far better to feel your littleness, so 
to speak, than to get so puffed that there is a 
liability of an explosion, and the going to pieces so 
great, that it is almost an impossibility to recover 
from the shock. Pride always taketh a fall, and 
about the time you think you knozv it all, the blind 
forces that have charge of your development, will 
drop you so hard you will fully realize the truth of 
what I have said to you. To some, the humility 



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they would suffer from the fall would be so great, 
that it would bar their progress forever after, but 
having had the experience, I can only say to you, 
should you be one of the ones who has to have the 
experience I have had in order to be brought to 
your senses, do not waver and be discouraged, but 
rise with renewed energy, and just think of what I 
have told you, and feel that you have only dashed 
your head against a sign board, that says, Too Much 
Puffed on Yourself. I will say to you now, most, 
if not all of us, have to pass through that vale of 
humility, and I believe it says, " He who humbles 
himself shall be exalted." But in passing through 
that vale, should discouragement come and our 
efforts cease, certainly we will never reach the 
top of the mountain and if you will read nature, 
surely you will observe that the valley always pre- 
cedes the hill, and we must go through it, before 
the summit can be reached. Hence, I would say, 
fix your eye on the point you desire to reach, and 
let no valley or obstruction bar your progress until 
you reach the height of your aspirations ; and be 
sure you do not make too low an estimate of your 
abilities. The question now at once arises, What 
are your aspirations? To enter into an At-One- 
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cenary gain because you have learned from ob 
vation that some have powers that did you have 
you could make yourself rich in short order? Is it 
because it would make you popular in the eyes of 
men? Or is it because the Divine Spark from 
within, has prompted the soul to rise from the 
temptations and allurements of material things of 
earth, and establish itself once again in the position 
from which it fell, when Souls were given a physical 
body and became their own free Moral Agents and 
formed laws for themselves, rather than accept the 
laws as already made by an All Wise Father? I 
ask you which? If prompted by the first motive I 
have mentioned, I urge you to desist from effort in 
further progress, for it will only mean death, and 
possibly absolute loss of individuality. If prompt- 
ed by the Spirit, I urge you to press forward and 
take advantage of all opportunities that may pre- 
sent themselves for obtaining true knowledge, for 
it will bring to you reward that money, lands, or 
jewels would not buy. But I ask you before you 
start, have you considered the price? Or do you 
feel in your own Soul that the reward is such that 
the price is of no consideration whatever? If you 
are starting from mere mercenary gain, I urge you 
to consider well the price. It is greater than you 



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can afford to pay. No matter what your income 
and bank account amount to. If you are an earn- 
est seeker after knowledge because of the Spirit 
prompting the Soul, you need not consider the 
price for a single instant, for you are ready to pay 
the price, no matter what it be: Money, friends, 
relatives or whatsoever. And friends I will say 
right here and now, I am not simply talking from 
belief but from actual experience, as I have really 
suffered the loss of all I have mentioned, but I will 
add further, could I be guaranteed a deed of the 
world and the management of its people, if I would 
be placed back in Soul Unfoldment where I was 
four years ago, my answer would be, "Get ye 
behind me Satan." Many will say they cannot 
believe this, but you who have read the Bible, will 
recall the one case as mentioned, and now I say to 
you in all candor, you know of two. As a word of 
encouragement, I will say, if the Spirit has prompt- 
ed the Soul, to obtain this higher knowledge and 
development, you will be taken care of, no matter 
how dark things at times may seem to you. If 
your heart is in the work, in perfect harmony 
with an All-Wise One, His eye will ever be on you, 
and He will ever care for his Chosen Ones ; and 
you are one of them. So have no fear ; now you 



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have made your choice. But, before going further, 
[ ask you, who are you? Are you a Messiah sent 

here to earth purposely as an instructor to men, to 
raise them up from the depths of despair into 
which many have fallen? Are you an Adept, or 
designed to be one? And if so, do you know how 
to begin? Or, are you just an ordinary Soul, en- 
dowed with Spirit as is all mankind and in pos- 
session of a physical body, and that Spirit is stirring 
your very soul, and urging it on to seek higher 
knowledge that it may in time be Initiated into 
the mysteries "so-called " of God? Solomon said, 
"Man, of all things you do, get Wisdom." Solon, 
one of the seven wise men of Greece, in one of his 
wise sayings, said, u Man Knoiv Thyself." I ask 
you, Do you know yourself? If not, you do not 
know how to start on this journey after true know- 
ledge, for the beginning of the journey for the 
Initiate, is at the place where Churches have been 
trying to direct their congregations these hundreds 
of years, and because of their lack of true know- 
ledge of themselves, they will be awfully surprised 
in the future to find themselves at the day they 
choose to call death, not even within the outer 
gates. Hence I say first of all, Know Thyself. 
Now >ou ask, What do you really mean? I mean, 



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know of your greatness, and your likeness unto 
God, the Creator of all things. In the first chap- 
ter of Genesis you will read that God made man 
in His own Image. I do not consider the reading 
of that to mean that man in personal appearance 
looks like God, but that man is in possession of 
Attributes, that are in correspondence with those of 
God. What are these Attributes, I hear you at 
once ask? Certainly no one as yet has been able 
to comprehend God as a unity, or find words to ex- 
press his Greatness in any one word, hence the 
wise men of ancient times reasoned thus: That 
three was the number of perfection hence three 
ultimates ought to express His Greatness, so they 
could at least have some conception of what God 
was, hence the choice of the three, Force, Love 
and Intelligence, corresponding to the three 
spheres, colored red, yellow and blue as described 
in the Knowledge of the Self. As man was made 
in the image of God, man must possess three 
attributes corresponding to Force, Love and In- 
telligence. Now as we analyze man, we find his 
force is made manifest through his physical body. 
His love attribute comes through his emotional 
nature, which we have learned has its seat in the 
Soul. Again we know there must be a communica- 



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tion between the Soul and God, and that must be 
through the Spirit, hence we have in man the 
three corresponding Attributes with God, body, 
Soul and Spirit. Hence, if man would communi- 
cate with God, it must be done through the Spirit, 
from the Spirit to the Soul, and from the Soul to 
the physical man. 

The question now at once arises, how can we 
prepare the body that it may receive the prompt- 
ings from the Soul and Spirit? And I say to you 
and all men, the promised land cannot be reached 
except as we understand these laws and receive the 
promptings from the Spirit, as the Spirit is God's 
messenger, and only through the promptings of the 
Spirit can we learn of the way to an At-One-Ment 
with our Creator. The Soul itself without the prompt- 
ings, does not know the law of higher attainment ; 
hence, do not look for true knowledge in any 
Medium's Circle, as the highest knowledge you 
would get there would only come from Elemental 
or Soul force, and not from Spirit. And now we 
come to the physical man builded up by nature 
over the form of the Astral body, which is 
builded by a power above the building of bodies on 
the physical earth. The physical body is super- 
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Elemental forces as assistants, and Special Senses 
given the body whereby the Soul may have assis- 
tants in caring for that body. Now observe, it was 
these five senses, that were the real cause 
of the fall of man. The Soul stands between 
the five senses and the Spirit. It is either 
instructed by the physical five senses, or by the 
Spirit. These five senses furnish us, or are the 
means rather, by which we develop our intellect, or 
as we say, gain the knowledge we are so proud of, 
and call it intellectuality or education. While on 
the other hand the Spirit, were it allowed, would 
furnish us with pure Intelligence, and let me empha- 
size here again, as I have many times before, but 
as the word is so badly misconstrued and used 
nowadays, I feel a pardon will readily be granted, 
when I use the term Spirit I do not mean any dis- 
embodied soul but pure Spirit, as it emanates from 
the Almighty, The Source of All Truth, and which 
will be made very plain in the next lesson on the 
origin of and difference between Divine thought and 
man-made opinion. The question at once arises, 
which will we allow our soul to be guided by: The 
five senses or the promptings of the Spirit, the true 
and only source of Truth? And now I hear the 
question, How shall we know what the promptings 



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of the Spirit are? Many will say nonsense; tl 

is no such thing as being prompted by the Spirit. 
To those who will make such a statement there is 

no use of argument for they simply do not believe 

the great hook of laws: The Bible, that is given for 
men to live by and attain unto the highest position, 
or At-One-ment with their God. That book speaks 
time and again of this same thing, and I ask you to 
read the book of Revelations, and see how the 
writer urges men to overcome, and the many re- 
wards they are to receive for this overcoming. 
What are these overcomings John the Revelator is 
talking so much about? Simply the overcomings 
of the five special senses as they are prompted to 
action by their rulers, the Elemental forces. Over- 
come these and listen to the promptings of the 
Spirit, and gain true intelligence, which is from 
God, rather than earthly knowledge which cometh 
only from men, true today and false tomorrow. 
Still I hear the question, How shall I know the 
promptings of the Spirit? To which 1 answer, 
listen to the voice of conscience, and be sure you do 
not let selfishness step in by the side of it. and you 
get the wrong voice ; and then assisted by reason, 
and with willpower as your battery, do what your 
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this statement and say they thought some men had 
no conscience to start with, hence would be a very 
poor medium through which the Spirit could pour 
its promptings: To which I will agree in part, for 
the teachings of some from early childhood have 
been such, that the finer sensibilities even of con- 
science have become so blunted and materialistic, 
nothing pure could penetrate without contamina- 
tion, and yet who knows of the remorse of heart 
of some of the worst of criminals, who were seem- 
ingly without ever having had a conscience. All 
Kings of Science are men who know these Truths, 
and their Knowledge or the Truth has made them 
free, according to the specific promise given by one 
of the most Mighty of Initiates, Jesus Christ. 

The man who is enslaved by his passions, 
emotions, appetites or worldly prejudices can in no 
wise become an Initiate. He must change, or he 
can never attain unto True Knowledge. He cannot 
be an Adept, for the word signifies, one who has at- 
tained by will, and work. What kind of work ? The 
work that it requires to master your temper, your 
tongue, your emotions, and your passions. That is 
the work dear friends of an Adept, and after you 
have done all this, you have taken the first step as 
an Initiate, and now I ask you, what do you think 



of the Straight and narrow way, as taught and 

practiced by church members as compared to that 
of an Initiate, or even an Adept, in the Higher 
Knowledge? The man who loves his own opinions 
and fears to part with them, who is always suspicious 
of new truths, who is ever prepared to doubt every- 
thing rather than admit anything on chance, should 
cease further effort in this line of work, for to him 
it is useless and dangerous. 

If you hold by anything in the world more 
than by reason, truth and justice; if your will be 
uncertain and vacillating either in good or evil; if 
logic alarm you and the naked truth make you 
blush; if you are hurt when accepted errors are 
assailed, you are not yet chosen to be instructed 
into the mysteries of an All Wise Father, but at 
the same time, using the exact words of Eliphas 
Levi, "Do not cry it down as dangerous, for it will be 
accepted and understood by an elect few," and I 
believe it says in that great book of Metaphysics, 
"Many are called, but few Chosen." Taking for 
granted that all, or most of my readers, are chosen 
to attain unto Initiation, we will now proceed to 
outline the work to be done by each and every one, 
that we may receive the promptings of the Spirit. 
First let me say to you, you do not know a single 



thing simply by me or anyone else telling it to you. 
I can suggest to you, you must prove it, else it is 
never a truth to you, only by belief in what I say. 
Belief is not always reliable, for you might under- 
stand different from what I ever said ; hence, you 
do not even start with the right belief as I would 
have you, hence I say prove all things, for things 
that may appear at first glance to be absolutely 
false, may be truths of greatest importance to you. 
I would say then first of all, it is the duty of a 
teacher, to instruct his pupils what to do that they 
may receive this knowledge themselves, without 
books or teacher. Then as a teacher, I would ask 
you to recall the knowledge you have of man before 
he was as yet projected into the Physical. And to 
those who are not in possession of the knowledge, 
I would say, before the projection of man in a 
physical body on this physical plane, he was perfect, 
and knew no evil. When he was projected to this 
earth, as I have told you before, that the Soul might 
have assistance in caring for his physical body, the 
special senses were given ; hence, it must appear, 
that when the special senses were given to man 
then came the fall, and to return to that position 
from which he fell, the things or forces that pro- 
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possession of, and brought under absolute control 
Control of what' Of the will, guided by rea 

and conscience. Man becomes king of the brute 
creation only by subduing or taming them, other- 
wise he will become their victim or slave. Brutes 
are the type of our passions, they are the instructive 
forces of nature. Now, if we would attain, we have 
a battle on hand at once. The passions must be 
conquered and made subject to our will. The 
emotions must also be conquered and made subject 
to the same power. How will we begin ? All 
emotions, and all passions, are first prompted by 
thought. Now what is thought? A full explanation 
of the origin or source of thought, both true and 
false, will be given in the next lesson, but suffice at 
just the present time to say, it is vibrations set in 
motion through the agencies of one of the five 
senses, lest it come from Universal Intelligence, 
and unless we are masters of these coarse vibrations 
of emotion and passion, the vibration from Univer- 
sal Intelligence is so fine it passes through, and we 
are unable to catch a single thought from which to 
formulate a single idea. Hence, begin at once to 
develope the will, as it is a part of God, or of 
Universal Force. You are heir to any amount you 
will develope or appropriate to your good. First 



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begin by making the muscles of your body sub- 
servient to that will. After practicing that until 
you have gained a pretty good control over the 
various muscles of the body, begin practicing the 
control of the breathing. First take ten seconds to 
inhale, then ten to hold the breath, and then ten 
seconds to let out the breath. From day to day 
increase the time until you can use thirty seconds 
to inhale, ten to hold the breath, and then thirty to 
let it out. Practice will increase your ability, until 
every muscle is under your absolute control. Even 
the muscles of the heart can be controlled by the 
will, but get absolute control over all the other 
muscles first. Then begin to control the tongue, 
for I say to you, men's and women's tongues are 
the makers of as much, if not more trouble, than 
any other part of the body. The eyes see, the 
tongue has to tell it. The ears hear, the tongue 
has to tell it. The hands commit murder, the 
tongue has to tell it to some trusty friend, and thus 
it goes. So I say, learn to see and not see; learn to 
hear and not hear, and as you progress in your 
unfoldment so you can receive your own prompt- 
ing, there will be a message come like this, " If you 
can say no good, say nothing." When you have 
gotten so you have mastered thus far, then begin 



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the mastership over thought. At first you may not 
be able to cast them out entirely, but I will tell you 
what you can do in such a case, trade then off. 
When a bad thought comes, or one that will make 
you any trouble, think of some one in its stead that 
will bring you joy and happiness. By so doing you 
will escape many a sad hour, and possibly a run of 
severe illness. After practicing this for some time 
you will then become able to cast out any thought 
at will that your inner conscience, will tell you is 
dangerous to entertain. And this is what Jesus was 
practicing when he said: "Satan get ye behind me." 
After you have gained mastership over the five 
senses and over the control of thought, then retire 
to the silence and listen. You may not have to wait 
even as long as this ere the voice speaks. Yes the 
voice; and as plainly as you can hear mine. Not 
the voice of God, as one thought whom I chanced 
to meet a short time ago, who had heard the voice 
I speak of, and not the voice of some guide as a 
great many think who are hearing voices, but the 
voice of your own Soul. Your true self. 

Listen to what it may say to you. Learn the 
errors of your past. Learn wherein you are 
hindering your present developement. It will tell 
you things you had long since forgotten, and pos- 



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sibly some you will wish had always remained so. 
Soon after this, if you have learned the lesson of 
self control well, the Spirit will begin to prompt the 
Soul and true knowledge will be imparted to you, 
and then you can prove to yourself whether what I 
have told you is true or not. As I have said to you 
before, nothing is a truth, only as you prove it, but 
after the Spirit once begins to prompt you, you 
know a truth as soon as you hear it, from the 
illumination you receive at the moment, if not from 
the basic reasoning which all truths have. 

Now to return to Eliphas Levi's definition of 
an Initiate, and let us see if we have planned the 
way by which we can become one. 

First. We must possess the lamp of Trismegis- 
tis. Or we must have reason illuminated by 
Science and Truth. If we have so developed our- 
selves so the Soul can talk to us prompted by the 
Spirit, or the Spirit ever ready to illumine us so we 
can recognize truths when we hear them or read 
them, have we not even found the lamp and got 
it into our possession? 

Then again, we must possess the mantle of 
Appolonius so we will be able to isolate all blind 
tendencies. If we are masters of the passions, the 
Emotions, any and all of the five senses, and 



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lastly, but by no means least, have the power tO 
check any and every impure thought, are we not in 
possession of the mantle? Can we not protect our- 
selves from any blind force" Certainly we can, 
and the mantle we possess is of the finest texture. 

And now how about the staff of the Patriarchs? 
The forces of nature, are the Elemental forces, and 
if we are perfect masters of ourselves, are we not 
masters of the forces of nature? Truly we are and 
I feel the day is not far distant, when the Elemental 
forces of nature will be my best friends, rather than 
ever seeking to make trouble for me, for those 
within me are nearly, if not quite, within my con- 
trol, and had they not been, I assure you I would 
not have been allowed to present to you these 
truths as plainly as I have, for surely it seems to 
me, I have made the way plain, and furthermore, 
have shown to you or pointed out where the 
dangerous places are, and I will only say in con- 
clusion for thislesson, Straight is the path and narrow 
is the way in which you must tread; in fact, much 
narrower than the Strictest Church Creed would 
even insinuate. 

Do you think you can follow the path that 
leads up to the Mount of Illumination? If you do, 
by all means make the Ascent, and when you have 



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arrived at the summit and look back over the path 
you have trod, and behold the wondrous powers 
and elevated position of man, to which he can at- 
tain by knowledge and perserverance, you will 
feel from the innermost recesses of your heart, and 
will cry out from the very depths of your very 
Soul, 

Praise God, from whom these blessings flow, 
Praise Him, All Mankind here below, 
Praise Him above, ye Heavenly hosts 
Praise Your Guardian Angel, The Holy Ghost. 



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LESSON II. 

Man's Duty. 

yM^ANKIND comes into this world as a child, 
^■•J born of woman, a child of nature and of God. 
As a child, devoid of Thought, Reason and Will 
and physically helpless. The care of the physical 
body must necessarily devolve upon the parents. 
As the child grows, the five senses born with the 
fifth root race gradually come into action, and the 
objective mind is gradually developed. Before 
there is any use made by the child of any of the five 
senses whereby any mind could become developed, 
we will notice in the child a mind, which does not 
come through the use of the five senses, and that is, 
what we call the intuitive mind, or in other words 
the subjective mind, or if you so choose to call it, 
the mind of the young animal, or in other words, 
the prompting of the Soul to that physical body, 
that food is required, as usually that is the first 
manifestation of physical mind. Hence as you can 
see at once, the child comes into the world with a 






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dual mind, one of which is to be generated or made 
here on the Physical plane, by, and through the use 
of the five senses, and which will be according to 
the education it receives from its parents, or the 
one who has charge of it. The other mind comes 
independent of the five senses, and receives prompt- 
ings from some source higher in authority, than 
from men of earth. It may be you have all taken 
recognition of this, long ere this, but if you have 
not, stop for a minute and think, if you have not 
seen babies, time and again, that you were positive 
in your own mind, knew things which you could 
not account for in any other way, only as I have 
explained, for they certainly could not have known 
what they did, by any power of reasoning through 
the five senses. In presenting this subject to you, 
most if not all of you, undoubtedly ask in your own 
minds, what could any man consider his first duty? 
To me the answer is easy, and when I tell you 
what I consider the first duty of man, you will all 
agree, I think without a dissenting voice. In my 
opinion, the first duty of all men is to learn to 
think, and to make this emphatic, I ask you, How 
many men or women do you know that really do 
think? Is it not a fact that a few men do the think- 
ing for the general whole? Have you not heard 



papers read before Societies where there was not 
an original idea of the writer expressed in the 

whole article, and the whole simply a collection of 
quotations of other men's ideas, or thoughts? Is 
it not a fact that a few Doctors think for all the 
rest of the Great Army of Doctors? The same 
with lawyers? And is it not a fact, that many ser- 
mons preached on Sunday all have their origin in 
the Headquarters of the Church according to the 
denomination using them? If not, how do so many 
men hew so close to the same line? When a min- 
ister begins to think for himself, he begins to bring 
out some truths, but as soon as he does, he is pro- 
nounced a Heretic by the Church, and usually 
has to seek new fields of labor. When the phy- 
sician advances a new and original idea, he is 
ostracised from the profession and called a quack, 
and in Ancient days they imprisoned him, and 
sometimes even murdered him. They would do the 
same thing today if the general populace had not 
learned to think more than the Doctor and would 
not uphold such indignities. Hundreds of inci- 
dents could be mentioned, where men have been 
put to death for simply presenting formulated 
thoughts or ideas, before the populace had gradu- 
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whereby they would accept, or even tolerate them. 
And now the question arises at once, What is 
Thought? I venture the assertion, and I sense 
without fear of contradiction, that all true thought 
originated with, and is wholly from the Almighty. 
As it came forth, it manifested itself on the Spiri- 
tual plane as Spirit. As Spirit manifests on the 
plane lower, or on the soul plane it becomes Intelli- 
gence. You will now observe in reading the de- 
scription of the Creation, as given by Moses, that, 
" The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the 
waters, and God said let there be Light, and there 
was Light and God saw that it was good." Now 
you observe, this Light is the Intelligence produced 
or brought forth by the presence of the Spirit, or 
in other words, Spirit made manifest on a lower 
plane, as Intelligence. This Intelligence now 
makes itself manifest in the formation of a Solar 
system, the rulership secondarily, becoming Soul 
rulership corresponding to this plane. Included in 
this system, are seven planets or co-workers, the 
combined influence, producing as a whole, the 
manifestation of Soul Intelligence. As this Intelli- 
gence or thought is projected to the physical plane, 
it manifests itself in the various minerals, plants 
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1 1< nee, the saying, That all things on this earth, 
arc thoughts of God, made manifest; and the still 
more familiar saying, That " Nature is God's open 
book, placed before man, that he might read as he 
runs." And now, as you will review the few 
thoughts just gone over, you will observe from the 
Spiritual plane, the thought of God is presented 
direct by the Spirit. From the Soul plane, the 
thought of God is made manifest by the planets 
and stars, and as the predominance of any special 
one or more radiates its influence to this earth, 
such will be the power of attraction, that will direct 
the things of earth in certain directions. As these 
seven forces concentrate their energies to things 
here on earth, the manifestation comes forth, as 
animal, mineral and vegetable growth. As the in- 
fluence of any one planet predominates, such will 
be the nature of the thing produced as is predomi- 
nant in the Soul nature of the planet predominant 
in Action. For instance, Gold is of the vibration 
of the Sun or partakes of the nature of Sun 
vibration; Tin expresses in the mineral kingdom, 
Jupiter vibration predominant, Lead of Saturn, 
Copper of Venus, Iron of Mars, Silver of the 
Moon, and Mercury of the planet Mercury. The 
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not least in man, as it is from this Soul Intelligence 
that man's soul is individualized. Furthermore, 
that soul in the man, varies according in its emo- 
tional nature, as is predominant any special plane- 
tary influence, at the time of birth. From thence 
the saying in Astrology that such a planet or 
planets as the case may be, are Lords of the first 
house, or Life rulers. It seems now there has 
been sufficient said on this line of thought to show 
you that all growth on this earth, is as has been 
said, simply thoughts of God made manifest, hence 
for man to obtain the true thought of God, he 
must know how to read God's Language as ex- 
pressed in Symbol or hieroglyph as placed before 
him in nature. Knowing how to read the language 
of nature, or if you please knowing how to read the 
Thoughts of God, as made manifest on this physical 
earth, in the various things placed before you, you 
will know the advice as would be given you by the 
Almighty himself, as regards the things you should 
do here on this Physical plane, as would be best for 
you from a physical standpoint. Then, again, 
there are things in nature, that would even direct 
the thoughts to the two next higher planes, the 
plane of Soul, and the plane of Spirit. To most 
men there are no lessons learned even from the 



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things on the Physical plane, say nothing of the 
knowledge to be gained from the thoughts of God 
as made manifest in the Heavens, but as I li 
said, the Creations of earth, produce the Thoughts of 
God, for directing men in caring for their physical 
bodies. So the Heavens make manifest the 
Thoughts of God as regards the instruction the 
Almighty would give to the Soul of Man, hence 
the saying of David: "The heavens declare the 
Glory of God and the firmament showeth His 
handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and 
night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no 
speech or language where the voice is not heard." 
(XIX Psalm.) This knowledge as it comes to man 
from the Heavens, is direct from the Almighty, and 
tells to man just exactly what will be his soul ex- 
perience, as a result of being projected into a 
physical body, at the time we call birth. That young 
soul is at that moment, caught by the web, so to 
speak, of the various Angles as cast by the 
various planets, thus forming the life experi- 
ences of that child. Could you read the lan- 
guage of God, or catch the Divine thought from 
the manifestation he makes with the various angles, 
then could you direct the child aright, and also your- 
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cast from the Heavens, are the bad influences that 
direct men to do the things not for their good, and 
the good of their fellowman. They are the An- 
gels, so to speak, that the Bible speaks of, as being 
cast out of Heaven, as bad Angels. They are the 
influences radiated to men on earth by two or more 
planets, which are not vibrating in harmony with 
each other, and the Angle they cast, is God's 
figure, or language to mankind, and as much 
as says, be careful, and not let it misguide you. 
In other words by knowing that improper Angles 
are to take place in the Heavens at certain 
times, is the same as knowing that God has 
spoken to you, for this is the way He speaks 
from this plain. Hence, the great importance 
of knowing geometric symbolism ; and the Mason 
who wears the square surmounted by the com- 
pass, surrounding the letter G, as much as says, 
I understand geometric symbolism, or the lan- 
guage of God. I hope he does, and he should, 
for Masonry was originally based on the Absolute 
Truth, and as King Solomon did know, and when 
he placed the two pillars at the entrance of the 
Temple, he as much as said do you enter by know- 
ledge or ignorance. Brother Masons, are you 
reading the thoughts of God from the Heavens, or 



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from the Universal Intelligence, as the charm you 
wear would indicate? If you are, then at any time 
when you choose, by casting a scheme of the 
Heavens you know by the angles cast, what the 
Almighty is saying to your Soul or to the Souls of 
men in general. From thence man is directed to 
the next higher plane, the plane of Spirit. From 
this plane there is no reasoning or no deductions 
to be made, as you are now in the vibration of God, 
and yoti know becattse you know. Immersed as 
it were, by waters from the fountain head, with no 
chance of contamination. We now revert back to 
man as a child. He is born, as has been taught 
you before in the lessons of the knowledge of the 
Self, with body, Soul and Spirit. The Soul is ruler 
of the body, and is attracted to that child, as yet 
unborn, according to the aspirations of the mother. 
The physical body, according to the law of God 
and Nature, is the creation of the Father and 
Mother. With the physical body, whose ruler is 
the Soul, there comes in this fifth root race, five 
special senses, as assistants to the Soul, in caring 
for the physical wants of this body. This child 
as it were, is born into the world, the same as 
an animal, with as yet no sense of reasoning, 
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of the five senses. As the child grows, the five 
senses gradually develop, and the parents begin 
teaching the child things they think they know, 
in order that the child may develop its brain, and 
gradually learn to think as they say and sooner 
or later learn to reason. As the child grows it 
learns more and more by the aid of these five senses, 
until it gradually begins to formulate ideas of its 
own, and thus it sends out on the etheric waves, 
vibrations or thoughts so to speak. Not of God's, 
but of its own and man-made, because they have 
been learned of men, and framed according to the 
man's ideas that produced them. And I ask you, 
do scarcely two men, with their man-made opinions 
ever agree exactly on a single question? Now I 
ask you, has the child anything more than the 
shadow of truth as regards True Thought? In 
fact, oftentimes, has he as much as even the 
Shadow? Not having had instruction from his 
parents, as regards the source of True Thought, 
whom do you think to blame for the continuance 
of things as they exist today? Not having the 
knowledge yourself, so you can teach the child, 
what kind of a teacher do you suppose the child 
will make for teaching others? Is it any wonder 
that medicine as it is taught today and practiced, is 



considered even by the laiety, a gigantic fare-, and 
the so-called graduates have to make such stren- 
uous laws to keep the quacks as they call them, out 
of their best families, and by the aid of the law 
rather than superior qualities of the man, save 
their yearly incomes? Is it any wonder that old 
orthodox church membership is on the decrease, 
and Christian Science, Divine Science, New Thought 
and Philosphy on the increase? Is it any wonder 
why law and Politics are corrupt to the very 
centre, and the pile of money, ruling the decision of 
the judges? No! No! And until men begin to 
know these truths, will there be any improvement. 
There may be exceptions to some of these state- 
ments just made, but you show me the exception in 
a single case, and I will show you a man, who has a 
soul awakening, or one prompted by the Spirit and 
who will soon be put out of the position because he 
cannot be bought with a price. I do not believe 
men are bad, and dishonest from choice, and make 
but very little if any effort to control themselves, 
but rather because they do not know, and the first 
blame must of necessity be laid at the door of the 
parent, whose duty it was to start that child in life 
right ; to teach him what True Thought was, and from 
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between True Thought, and that man made. But 
alas! He did not know himself, and how can one 
teach, if he does not know ? Hence, here is one of 
the first duties that man should learn. He should 
learn it for his own good ; He should learn it for 
the good of those who depend upon him, for their 
start in life, and he should also learn it for the gen- 
eral good of all mankind, and I now ask you, is it 
not the design of an All- Wise Father, that we help 
one another ? Then if we would, we must learn 
the source of True or Divine Thought which com- 
eth only from God, and not allow it to become con- 
taminated with that which has its origin in man, 
which may be true today, but false tomorrow. Lack 
of truth, gives loss of confidence. There is no 
truth in man, only as it cometh from God, hence, 
so long as men make the thought and recognize no 
other, so long will lack of confidence, discontent, 
war and bloodshed, exist among mankind. And 
now you ask when did men drift from the real truth 
as you would have us understand it? To which I 
reply as follows : Man originally came on this 
Physical plane perfect, and in possession only of 
True and Divine thoughts. He knew the Divine 
laws whereby he might even sustain his physical 
body, without the aid of foods as we use them to- 



day, but rather through the agency of the atfl 
phere, as all forces are radiated from above, through 
this medium, and from thence stored in the various 
plants and growths on this earth, whereby man in 
his present state of enlightenment, takes from them, 
the forces, and requirements of his physical body. 
From thence, you can at once understand the 
Garden of Eden, was a condition, rather than a 
place, for with the True and full knowledge of 
Divine Law, whereby the will of Man, was as the 
will of God, can you not at once see, man was per- 
fectly independent, regardless of place or surround- 
ings? But with the projection of Man into the 
physical, there came the Special Senses to assist 
the Soul in caring for that physical body. The 
eyes began to see; the ears began to hear; the feel- 
ings of emotions and passions began to develop. 
The planets had begun their circuits in the 
Heavens, radiating their good and bad angles to 
men on the earth. These Angles began at once to 
play upon the emotions of men, and the moon, the 
force greatest of all playing upon the man's 
emotions, at once produced by its rapid circuit 
through the heavens: The Serpent that tempted 
Eve, that Serpent so much spoken of in the Bible, 
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most of men to be the snake that crawls in the 
grass, but my dear readers, the Bible Serpent is not 
the snake we know of, and if you would stop to 
think, as I have taught you, you should, do you 
suppose you could plan a way whereby the snake 
could talk to mankind? No! No! But as the 
Emotions began to develop in man, the forces as 
was radiated from the planets, began to generate 
in man new thoughts, and as these new thoughts 
gradually began to develop, man began to taste of 
the forbidden fruit, and as these emotional thoughts 
came faster and faster, he soon lost the promptings 
of the Spirit or Divine Thought, and as the Bible 
says he was driven out of the Garden of Eden, and 
does not the Bible say he was not to retain this 
higher knowledge, for fear he would live alway? 
Read (Genesis 3-22.) As it says thus, "And the 
Lord God said, Behold the man is become as one 
of us, to know good and evil, and now, lest he put 
forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat, 
and live forever." Then again, to prove further 
that man originally did not have to partake of the 
foods of earth, as men do today, read (Genesis 
3-17.) "And unto Adam he said, Because thou 
hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast 
eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee say- 



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ing, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground 

for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the 
days of thy life." Then in the next verse it says. 
" Thorns also and thistles, shall it bring forth to thee 
and thou shalt eat the herbs of the fields." In 
other words from the lack of true knowledge, the 
sickness produced from your own man-made opin- 
ion, you will have to cure in the future by the use 
of herbs that grow in the fields. With the true 
knowledge, let me say here, it requires no herbs of 
the field, as there would be no sickness or suffering 
whereby they would be required. When you 
possess true knowledge you will not violate law ; 
and sickness and suffering are only the result of its 
violation. Then again, notice in that 17th verse it 
says, "because thou hast hearkened unto the voice 
of thy wife." Why was it the woman, who tempted 
the man, instead of the man tempting the woman, 
as is shown, and was the judgment of God, accord- 
ing to this verse? Let me say to you, this only 
verifies the point made earlier in the lesson when I 
said the moon was the cause of the radiating in- 
fluence that awakened the thought in mankind, 
whereby the emotions were stirred, and the woman 
being the more senitive to vibrations than the 
man, she would necessarily receive the thought 



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vibrations first, and then transmit, or prompt the 
man with the thought these vibrations had set in 
motion, in her own objective mind. Some may say, 
and will say, I do not believe the moon, or any other 
Planet vibrations, have any effect on mankind what- 
soever. As I have told you before in our lessons, 
the moon in the Heavens corresponds to the brain 
in the man, and as the brain acts in the man, so the 
moon does in the Heavens, only the moon acts first, 
and the brain at once follows, and vibrates in the 
same key. The woman being the most sensitive to 
vibrations, as a matter of fact, responds to the 
vibration at once. And now can you not recall the 
fact, from your own observation, when you will just 
stop and think, that the moon has a marked 
influence on most if not all women every month, 
and on some to the extent of making them nearly 
or quite insane? Go with me into the Asylums, 
and study those cases of insanity and see for your- 
self, and then you can appreciate the depth of my 
statements. Some you will see, who are perfectly 
sane except at certain phases of the moon, and as 
soon as that change is passed over, perfectly 
rational again, but a repetition again, and again as 
that special influence is radiated from that seeming 
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see its effect on both men and women but, neces- 
sarily, as I have before stated, more on the woman 
than on the man. As I have said to you many 
times before, I do not ask you to accept a single 
statement I may make, simply because I say it, but 
I do say open your eyes and see. I now ask you to 
read the first two verses of the VI Chapter of 
Genesis, which reads as follows, "And it came to 
pass when men began to multiply on the face of the 
earth and daughters were born unto them, The 
sons of God saw the daughters of men were fair, 
and they took them wives, all which they chose." 
The sons of God were certainly those who knew the 
true knowledge, but they were overcome by the 
sense of sight, one of the five senses. I have taught 
you man was to overcome, and thus you see, in the 
beginning, the best of men began to formulate 
thoughts of their own, prompted by one of these 
five senses, whose very nature is to stir the emo- 
tions, and thus, gradually, they began to think, as 
men say today, thoughts that harmonized with their 
own emotions and selfishness, rather than with the 
will of God. By so doing, in a short time the true 
thought of God was lost sight of, so to speak, and 
the thought vibrations as could be caught by men, 
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than the thought vibrations of the Spirit or God, as 
was made manifest in nature that surrounded man 
on all sides. As time went on, these thought vibra- 
tions of men, based wholly, as you might say, upon 
selfishness, became stronger and stronger until 
finally the whole world thought vibration, became 
such that the finer vibrations, could no longer find 
lodgement in man's material and money making 
mind. Furthermore, not only does mind influence 
mind, as Eve did Adam, but as souls pass out of 
bodies, on to the Psychic plane, filled with emotion 
and passion, let me say to you, we have not gotten 
rid entirely of bad souls by the change we call 
death, for after they leave this earth, they impress 
souls yet on this earth with the same ideas, or 
thoughts as they were in possession of, while they 
were yet in a physical body on this Earth plane. 
And now I hear, Oh, Bosh! What nonsense! But 
to such I can only say, develop the Soul Sense of 
Sight that God has given to all men, and then visit 
the saloon bar, where men are standing drinking, 
and see what you see. If you are too materialistic 
to develop any of the higher God-given senses, ask 
some good Seer, to see for you and tell you what he 
sees. Simply because you cannot develop, do riot 
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have got to accept some things by others telling 
you, if you have not come into the possession of 
true knowledge. I would also add, watch the 
patient who is having an epileptic fit, and if you 
please, watch the excited church member who gets, 
what they call the power, in an exciting church 
revival meeting, and if you can see, certainly you 
will say, it does not make angels out of men to die, 
but devils instead. And let me add here, paren- 
thetically, the death penalty as adopted by many 
states for their criminals, is the greatest mistake 
ever made by an intelligent people. You have 
only freed a murderous soul from a physical body, 
and it becomes much more dangerous, and de- 
structive to mankind on the psychic plane, than on 
the physical, where it had a physical body to 
mark it. Such murderous fiends need to be 
taken care of, but confine the body so as to 
hold that Soul as much as possible, in the hopes 
the Soul may change before it leaves the body, 
for I say to you in all candor, and because I 
know, that it becomes a prompter of thought in 
men, and thoughts of the vilest kind, when it finds 
one tuned to its vibration on this earth. And it 
finds them, and takes advantage of the adverse in- 
fluences that is radiated to men from the planets in 



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the heavens, and the moment of birth of any child, 
will tell to the one who can read God's language 
from the manifestation in the heavens, at what time 
any child will be taken advantage of by these un- 
seen foes. And now I hear some one ask for some 
illustration of my statement, to which I reply, by 
asking you a question. Did one of you ever see a 
kleptomaniac? It was not really their desire to 
steal, but when the moon stood in some certain 
position, no matter how honest that person was at 
other times, and no matter how many churches he 
was a member of, he went straight out and stole 
something, and ofttimes things of very inferior 
quality, as compared with things of the same sort 
he in all probability possessed at the same time. 
And then, again, did you ever take note of the 
fact that most kleptomaniacs were women? Take 
the drinking husband, (yes or wife sometimes) 
and does he not start out from home in the morn- 
ing with the firm resolve that he will not touch a 
single drop during his absence? But he is scarcely 
outside of the home, when the thought comes into 
his mind quicker than a flash, I wish I had a glass 
of beer, and that thought stays there until he goes 
and gets it, and goes home, drunker if anything 
than he was the last time, and then the remorse 



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that follows, because he did not mean to break his 
word. Friends, who made him break it? Doj 

of illustrations could be made to show how these 
unseen influences prompt thoughts in men in regard 
to physical ills, but as they will all be brought out 
in the next lesson on the subject of how to preserve 
your health, I will not dwell longer on that subject 
in this place. There is undoubtedly not a single 
person, but that has had not only once, but dozens 
of times, thoughts flash into their minds, that were 
foreign to anything they had ever seen, heard, or 
even dreamed of, which had they entertained and 
followed out in action according to the prompting, 
would have meant absolute ruin to them, morally, 
physically, and financially. Who prompted that 
thought? Did you ever stop to ask such a ques- 
tion when one of these promptings came? It 
was not from your subjective mind per se and 
not from your objective mind, as having been 
recorded on the subjective plates, as you had 
never known anything of it before. Then again, 
many times these unseen entities, will bring scenes 
within your objective mind, that will remind you of 
things you have seen in the past, whereby a special 
train of thought is started to acting, and as you 
think, so you are. Thought always precedes the 



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action and though your conscience dictates against 
the action, every repetition of the act lessens the 
dictations to the contrary of the conscience. Often- 
times, when the mind will not tolerate these stray 
and unwelcome thoughts, these unseen prompters 
of thought will use your sleeping hours, and throw 
before you scenes in your dreams, that you will have 
to make strong efforts upon awakening, to get the 
mind once again free from. As a general thing, 
men think these are only dreams, and do not give 
them any particular consideration, but I say to you 
beware of stray thoughts, that are thrown into your 
mind, from any source, or in any way, and if they 
contain any taint whatever that would be detrimen- 
tal to your good, cast them out at once, as you 
would a robber from your house, for they are the 
serpents assistants, that was the means of man's 
fall, or loss of true knowledge, whereby man lost 
his inheritance to the Garden of Eden. Now, all 
thought is vibration, hence, any force that will set 
up a new vibration, will bring about another train of 
thought. You will receive the vibration according 
to the Key, you are specially attuned to. If you are 
wholly of the material, you will only receive vibra- 
tions as they come through the promptings of the 
five senses. If you are keyed a little higher, you are 



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more responsive or sensitive, and are what men 
today would call intuitive. If still more sensitive, 
and have learned some of the laws whereby you 
have educated the Soul to a more sensitive state, 
you are what they call Mediumistic. As an illus- 
tration of the various states of receiving thought 
promptings, take the real material man first. He 
is keyed to the lowest vibration of all. The only 
thoughts he has, is when something presents itself 
distinctly before him. Some one or more of his 
five senses, have got to present it to him before he 
catches the vibration, and then oftentimes laughs 
the next day after the point has been made. And 
then bear in mind, if there is any reasoning to 
be used at all, the point will never reach him. 
Then comes one who is keyed next higher, and the 
thought is prompted by the first intimation received 
by any one of the five senses. A hint, so to speak, 
is sufficient. Then comes the woman. She does 
not have to see, hear, touch, taste or smell ; but the 
moment one comes in her presence, she says, 
"John, don't have anything to do with that man." 
But John has not as yet suspicioned a thing and 
slowly asks, Why? Friends, this is Soul to Soul 
vibration, and with a knowledge of, and cultivated, 
becomes mental telepathy, and I say to you all, 



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the day is not far distant when telegraph lines will 
be done away with, and mental telegraphy used in 
its stead. They are already using the wireless 
telegraph, and the mental telegraph is next. Then 
comes next the Medium. Developed by patient 
labor, so they even hear the voices from the psychic 
plane. A development that affords oftentimes 
much pleasure, and then again to be despised. The 
chief objection one can have to this form of devel- 
opment, is that most persons when developed to 
this extent, think they have reached the topmost 
round, and there is no need of further develop- 
ment or effort. To them, this is the Christian's 
so-called Heaven. But my dear readers, not so. 
You have only stepped out of the first octave, and 
there is just as bad vibration there, as on the physi- 
cal plane, and if anything more dangerous, as you 
are not so well acquainted there as on the earth, 
and you at once put too much confidence in 
what those disembodied Souls tell you. 

Many think this is not a fact, as regards the 
hearing from the Higher planes, and scoff at the 
idea: But it is only because you do not know, and 
too low-keyed in vibration to try to find out. It is 
a wise saying that "Wise heads always keep close 
counsel." and to those who are keyed too low to 



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catch the point there, one would have to exprc 

thus. That the man who docs not know, had bet- 
ter keep his mouth closed. 

There is one more class of sensitives on this 
Earth plane not as yet mentioned, which should not 
be lost sight of, as at some time in the future, they 
will prove of greatest benefit to mankind, and that 
is the one who catches the vibration from the mere 
touch, in other words the Psychometrist. She takes 
the pebble from the brook, and from the mere 
sense of touch, gives you a complete history of its 
formation and wanderings. A piece of plastering 
from the walls of your room, and gives you a full 
and complete history of the inhabitants of that 
room, and all that ever took place therein. And 
now I hear again, I cannot believe it. Only another 
case of you do not know, and only time, not words 
will prove it to you, Now, if you will review care- 
fully the vibrations we have just gone over, that 
are the prompters of thought in mankind, you will 
have observed, that they all originated formerly with 
man. Even the Medium, who thinks she is talking 
direct with the heavenly world, is only hearing the 
thought vibration of men, who were only a short 
time before, men on this earth, and perhaps too 
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the most ordinary language. Friends, all the 
thoughts we have just been discussing is only the 
Shadow of the real, Truths today, and falsehoods 
tomorrow. The real truth does not come from 
man, and it seems, after having gone over it so 
carefully, you can see at a glance where man began 
to deviate from the real God-given truth, and be- 
gan formulating for himself ! and it seems to me, if 
I as a teacher would teach men how to raise them- 
selves from this lowly condition, and state, into 
which they have fallen, unto truth, and regaining 
of lost estate, it is imperative upon me to show to 
my students what the so-called Adam did, that con- 
stituted the fall. And it seems I have told it over 
so many times in this lesson, even those keyed to 
the lowest vibration, would get the thought by 
saturation if in no other way. And now you ask how 
can I get the truth? The vibrations that prompt 
the thought of truth, come only from the Spirit 
plane, and one can only receive it by a thorough 
preparation. Our lesson previous to this told you 
what one must do to be a Candidate for Initiation, 
and summing it all up in the fewest of words, would 
say, Conquer every one of your five senses, and 
make them do your bidding, instead of you theirs. 
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its incipiency, master every thought that pa 
through your mind, and those not for your good, 
cast out, and do not entertain for an instant. And 
after having done all this, then know that God will 
prompt the thought that He would send to you, by 
the vibrations, that will come from the things He 
has created on this earth, as your open book. But 
as an assistant, that you may analyze these things 
and not let your five senses lead you astray, He has 
endowed you with Reason, a Spiritual gift, and 
prompter of the truth. As against the Spirituality of 
the gift, stands a creation of yours, whose name is 
Selfishness. He is a monster, and if you are even 
tainted with untruth, he will rule the Reason, rather 
than Spirit, and you fail. 

But there is an assistant to Reason, and a very 
reliable one, and always invite his opinion, even if 
the question is of but slight proportion. The as- 
sistant I mean is Conscience. He is ever with you, 
and often speaks when you do not want to hear 
him. But if you would live the life of truth, you 
will ever have to obey that voice that speaks 
through the heart, and oftentimes sharper than a 
two-edged sword. Live so it does not have to 
speak, is the best advice I could give to mankind. 
Reason, and conscience, will both have to be used 



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on both the physical and psychic plane ; but when 
you have attained unto the Spiritual plane, and the 
prompting comes direct and not through any mani- 
festation, then you know, because you know. A 
friend ever a friend. No more parting, and God 
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LESSON III. 

Why Should I Preserve My 
Body and How May I? 

^^HIS is a question that probably very few, if 
^** any, have ever given any very serious thought 
or consideration. They seem to take it as a sort of 
matter of fact, that they have got it, and they will 
use it any way they choose; and they do, and as a 
result of the manner in which the body is used, in 
an average of less than half the number of years 
allotted to man, they have to part with it. The 
principal use most men can see the body is for, is 
for the purpose of doing the varieties of labor, that 
the physical man may be called upon to perform, 
whereby he earns a livelihood. Aside from that, 
and the pleasures he enjoys by being in possession 
of the various parts, and faculties, there is nothing 
further he can think of. Most men seem to think 
their bodies are machines of perpetual motion, and 
should not tire, break, or even wear out, and are 



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always living in hopes some act of Divine Provi- 
dence, will assist them in evading violations of law. 
Solomon said, "The fear of the Lord is the begin- 
ning of wisdom." Men read that over and over 
again, but still do not comprehend its great import, 
and instead of profiting by the wise counsel, keep 
right on violating, and then when the price has to 
be paid for the violation they have committed, then 
they pray, Oh, so earnestly, for God Almighty to 
change his laws, whereby they may become exempt 
from paying the penalty. And then they wonder 
why God does not hear and answer prayer. "Oh, 
Consistency; thou art a jewel !" Then again there is 
a law that is almost as fixed as the stars, that any- 
thing obtained without a price, is without a value, 
hence, health, which can only be obtained through a 
perfect body, is of no value until a price has to be 
paid for it. So in most instances, health is sacrificed, 
for pleasure or amusement of emotion, and gratifica- 
tion of appetitesand passions, and when too late the 
possessor of the once perfect body, finds he is de- 
void of all happiness on this Earth plane, as he has 
no health nor can he obtain it, as he has violated 
the law so many times, some vital organ has had to 
yield to the strain. Vital organs can not be repro- 
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physician in charge. Functional disturbances may 
be corrected, vital disease never cured. Hence he 
has sacrificed happiness, for true happiness can 
only come through a perfect body. But, men seem 
to travel in this world blindfolded, and do not 
seem to come to a sense of understanding until too 
late. Did any one of you ever take a degree in any 
secret order? If you did, were you not blind-folded 
when you first entered the lodge room for initiation ? 
Did you not receive the lesson then, of the same 
condition that exists in the great lodge of Human 
Existence, or life on this Physical Plane? 

When you entered the lodge room, should you 
have chanced to stumble over some obstruction, 
the attendant would have said they are obstructions 
to bar your progress in the order. He did not 
say to you though, that he was really teaching you 
a lesson, whereby you could profit in your every day 
life, and learn from the experience you were receiv- 
ing at the time, that you were already a candidate for 
initiation in a greater lodge than most men are 
able to comprehend, and you were only advanced 
to the blindfold part, and was as yet bumping over 
the obstructions, because as yet you could not see. 
Do you now see the lesson that is taught to all 
men, when they first enter a lodge of any kind for 



initiation? Let me now say to you, and with 
emphasis, such lessons do not come by chance. 
There is no such thing as chance. All things are 
according to fixed laws, and there is not even a 
lodge in existence today, but that is full of God's 
Symbols and lessons, all pointing to one great and 
grand lesson, "Man Know Thyself.'" The plan- 
ning of these hidden and secret lessons, as you see 
in lodge rooms, were not by men, as most men 
think, but by higher authority, with one great 
thought ever in view, that men might see, and come 
to a sense of understanding, whereby they might 
regain their lost estate, due to what men in all 
ages have chose to call the fall of man. 

Men formerly lived 600, 800 and nearly to one 
thousand years of age. Now the allotted time for 
man is three score years and ten, and great mention 
made by all newspapers, should one chance to live 
to reach the hundred mark. Now as we look 
back, and reason on the question, I ask all, are we 
gaining in our sense of seeing things, or are we 
becoming more and more blind? If men in former 
times lived nine hundred and sixty nine years, why 
cannot we? If men in any day of this world could 
overcome death, why cannot we? St. Paul, in 
1st Corinthians 15:26, says, "The last enemy that 



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shall be destroyed is death." If we believi 
single word St. Paul says, we must believe it all. 

I for one, believe it all, and know it is true. If you 
will read John, and as though he were speaking the 
word of God, as it was by the prompting of the Spirit 
that he spoke, when speaking to the churches in the 
second chapter of Revelations, 4th verse he says, 
" Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, be- 
cause thou hast left thy first love." 7th verse: "He 
that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith 
unto the churches. To him that overcometh will 
I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in 
the midst of the paradise of God." The 
1 ith verse says, "He that overcometh shall not be 
hurt of the second death." 17th verse: "To him 
that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden 
manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the 
stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, 
saving he that receiveth it." 26th verse: "And 
he that overcometh, and keepeth my works 
unto the end, to him will I give power 
over the nations, and I will give him the 
Morning Star, etc., etc. Friends, John has said 
something, and what does it all mean? Have you 
ever considered this for a single instant? Can you 
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Soul clothed in a body that has five senses, and 
that the real purpose of our being projected to this 
Physical Plane, was to overcome the temptations of 
a physical life? Have you not learned before in 
our lessons, that our bodies were made up by the 
Elemental forces, and the five senses were a part 
of the physical body, and were the means by which 
the Elemental forces directed that body, and stirred 
the soul to emotion? Do you understand these five 
senses must have a governor, so they will not mis- 
lead the Soul, and by so doing destroy both Soul 
and body? Do you now see that we can not gain 
the rewards John offers, until we have accom- 
plished what is required of us, from this Earth 
Plane? Do you recognize, that sickness is only a 
war between the elements of your body? Do you 
know that when the elemental forces are directing 
your Soul, that the Spirit, the only source of proper 
instruction is absolutely passive? Can you now 
see that you are not placed on this earth, merely 
for the purpose of hording up money, and having a 
heap of fun as most men say? Do you see there is 
a use for your body, beyond and of far greater im- 
portance than you had ever dreamed of? Now, 
man is made up of physical substance called a Body, 
a Soul, and a Spirit. The body is on the outer 



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side. The Soul is on the inner side. The Spirit is 
within the within, and is the Spirit or Christ, if you 
phase, the pure essence of the Almighty. The 
Soul stands between this Divine Spark, and the 
elemental world, which manifests itself through the 
five senses. This Soul by itsown choice to make the 
overcomings of the elemental forces, was placed 
between the two, on this Physical plane, the five 
senses representing the elemental forces, the Spirit 
representing the God element, and ever ready to 
prompt the Soul, as to what is right and wrong, 
through the conscience and reason. This body of 
yours was given to the Soul by the Almighty, and 
then God Almighty takes part possession of the 
body, but inasmuch as the Almighty is Creator of 
all, it must necessarily all belong to Him. St. Paul 
in I. Corinthians, 3rd Chapter, 16 verse says, "Know 
ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the 
Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" 17th verse says, "If 
any man defile the temple of God, him shall God 
destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which tem- 
ple ye are." Again in Corinthians 6:19 Paul 
says, "What? Know ye not that your body is the 
temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye 
have of God, and ye are not your own?" Friends, 
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teachings of St. Paul? Do you doubt what he says? 
If not, you must accept what I say, and no getting 
around it. Do you now see God gave you your 
body, simply for a dwelling place for the Soul, that 
it might have the chance of trying to overcome the 
temptations of this physical life, and nothing else? 
As a matter of fact, you must care for, and provide 
for the body, and those dependent upon you, but at 
the same time, while doing the labor required of 
you to earn a livelihood, you have no right to 
abuse that body of yours in any way, or to get it 
out of harmony with itself. For the Spirit of God 
is within that body, and is ever trying to help you to 
overcome the tern ptations, that are your Soul testers, 
so to speak, that your every day life, and business 
cares, are constantly bringing to you. I have men- 
tioned in my teachings time and again, all these over- 
comings, and also the rewards, as was promised by 
God, through John, if you would only make them. 
Do you think John was only jesting to mankind 
when he said these things? Do you not think 
they were meant for you and me? If men in 
John's time had to make these overcomings, why 
not we? Do we not constitute one of those 
seven churches, John was speaking to? Are your 
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If not, why not? If so, why are you not doing 
what they tell you? Have you really woke up yet, 
so as to see what your real duty is, and do you yet 
see what your body is really for? St. Paul Bays, 
"If ye defile the temple, him will I destroy." Is 
that not as much to say, If you do not defile it, it is 
yours to use as long as you choose to use it as an 
abiding place for your Soul? Now it seems to me, 
I have said sufficient in this place to prompt you, to 
a desire to know something of your self, and the 
law by which you can preserve the Temple of God, 
"which Temple ye are," and which in the past you 
have been taught was only your physical body, and 
nothing else, and you had a right to do with it as 
you chose. But, alas! Only another man-made 
opinion, and oh! how far from the truth. Even in 
the churches, where God's Laws are supposed to 
be taught, why have they not told you what this 
body of yours is for? Have the Ministers of the 
Gospel failed to comprehend what both St. Paul, 
and John have been telling you for the past 
thousand years and more? But still the same old 
story, The blind leading the blind, and trying to 
climb up by some short cut, that would require no 
effort on your part, except that you obeyed the 
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you that, without a tutor. St. Paul says, "Ye 
are bought with a price, and are not your own. " 
Now a part of the price that you are to pay, is to 
bring this body of yours under subjection, and not 
let it be ruled by your instinctive nature, rather 
than by the law of God, whose agent the Spirit, or 
the Christ is within you, and is ever prompting you, 
or ready to, providing you will let it. If you ever 
attain unto higher knowledge, or become a Chris- 
tian if you please, you have got to learn these very 
things I have pointed out to you, and have got to 
find this innermost essence, the Spirit, and recog- 
nize it, and put down this emotional and passionate 
nature. I say to you and with emphasis, that only 
by the aid of this Spirit essence, can you make the 
overcomings that you have got to make, before you 
are freed from the trials of an earth life, hence the 
truth of the saying of Jesus Christ, that only 
through the Christ can your Soul gain immortality. 
With a perfect body, and in perfect harmony with 
itself, come the greatest advantages one can have, 
for finding the Spirit, and as I have said many 
times in my lessons, I now once more repeat, that 
whenever I use the word Spirit, I have reference to 
the Divine Essence or the Christ that exists in all 
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of some so called chad man, lor I do not consider 

the Soul knows any more out of the body, than it 
did when it was in its body, ^m\ then again, Truth 
only comes from ( rod through the medium of Spirit, 
and unless you find the Spirit while yet in this body, 
the chances are another earth life for you, and 
possibly many, and with possibly far less advan- 
tages for gaining knowledge, than you have in the 
present one, hence, if you would do what the 
Almighty designed you should, you will take the 
greatest care possible of your body, and the 
moment you feel the least inharmony going on 
within, begin at once to study, to find out if possi- 
ble what law you have violated, for surely you have 
violated some law, and by so doing, committed 
some sin against yourself and God. Many do not 
seem to think that when they have brought some 
sickness upon themselves, they have committed 
any sin; but I ask you, what did Jesus Christ mean, 
when he said, "Go and sin no more," after the 
healing of every sickness he ever performed? 
Was sin any different in those days than at the 
present time? Do you want to believe something 
that applies to the other man, and because it 
applies to you, try to evade it? Possibly you may 
by practice seer your conscience over for the pres- 



ent, and let that hero, Selfishness, step in and excuse 
you for the time being, but the time will come, 
when your iniquities will find you out, and the gen- 
eral summing up of all will come and "Then you 
will know." I now anticipate the question in ad- 
vance, supposing that I have not known these laws 
and have allowed my body to become diseased, 
how may I once again become in harmony, and re- 
main so? To which I answer, before you can stop 
the effect, you must first know the cause, as there 
is no effect without a cause, and no cause without 
effect. The price has always got to be paid, hence 
the wise saying of Solomon, when he said, " The 
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." 
When mankind can learn that there is a price to 
be paid for every violation of the laws of God and 
Nature, and he profits by his Knowledge, and 
makes no more violations, he has received the first 
gift of the Spirit, Wisdom. Now, we should begin 
to see why we have been sick. What was the cause, 
that we may not violate the law again? To go 
back to our former lessons, we learn the five senses 
were the cause of man's loss of true knowledge in 
the beginning. By his loss of true knowledge, and 
the substitution of his own, sickness, misery, and 
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yore, and the five senses are the causes still of 
man's troubles, sickness, vice, misery, destruction 

and death. These great gifts, as you call them, 
the senses, are the monsters that are making the 
troubles, or causes of all your mistakes, or sins. 
Will you begin to recognize, and fight against the 
cause or not? That is the only question. Now I 
hear the question, How does any of my five senses 
make me do wrong, or produce sickness in me? 
How about your taste? Do you ever eat more 
than you ought simply because it tastes well? Do 
you know the Soul, the great Alchemist that stands 
within your body, and transmutes the various foods 
put into the stomach, into the various tissues, can 
only utilize just so much, in the building of your 
body, and no more? Can you not see that any 
surplus simply clogs the machine, and a very com- 
plicated piece of machinery at that? Do you real- 
ize that the large majority of physical diseases are 
simply the result of over eating, or gluttony? Did 
you ever eat anything, your common sense alone, 
would tell you not to, but your taste urged you on, 
and you repented at your leisure, possibly at the 
end of a long illness, and then do the same right 
over again? Yes, you did, and many never 
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sickness is always the price paid for the viola- 
tion, and a large Doctor's bill thrown in. And 
the sense of taste did it. And now let me ask you, 
did you ever hear anything that put you all out of 
harmony, and possibly brought on a prolonged ill- 
ness of nervous disease, which has required time to 
recover from, and possibly never will be ? What did 
it? That sense of hearing. And now, how about 
the eye-sight? Did you ever see anything that got 
you angry, jealous, morose, sorrowful, over joyful, 
and in fact, any condition that really produced an 
inharmony within you? What did it? Just the 
eye-sight. How about the sense of touch? Did 
you ever know of any one getting hold of 
anything, that aroused the emotional nature to 
such an extent, that they forgot to let go, and leave 
it where it belonged? Money oftentimes, produces 
such an effect on the sense of touch, that many 
men are invited to the gallows, or electric chair to 
pay the price of the violation of the law, and 
physicians are of not much account either for their 
benefit, after the entertainment is over. 

I would now say, of the great variety of dis- 
eases, they resolve themselves into just three 
divisions. One of the physical body alone, one of 
the Soul alone, and one of both Soul and body. 



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For one to be a true physician, to assist and cure 

mankind of the various ills man lias become licir 
to, he must be born one, as true physicians arc not 
made, any more than an Avatar or a Messiah. 
He must understand thoroughly in which one of 
these divisions to classify the disease he is called 
upon to treat, and how to apply his remedies as 
will be explained later in the lesson. 

If you are to try to care for yourself, so you will 
not become sick, by careful study you will observe, 
that most of the diseases of the body alone, come 
directly through the sense of taste, and the failure 
on your part in ruling it, instead of the taste ruling 
you. This class of diseases, if not allowed to con- 
tinue long, is cured by physical remedies, as is 
given by physicians, who have a proper knowledge 
of the use of drugs, and their application to the 
disease in question. The next one in order to call 
your attention to is the Soul diseases. They all 
come as a result of the five senses, working upon 
the Soul or emotional nature, until gradually the 
individuality of the Soul is put in abeyance, and 
sometimes completely lost for a time, and quite 
frequently for this whole life. The majority of the 
inmates of asylums, are of this class of disease, 
Soul disease. Most epileptics are of this class. All 



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cases of morphine addiction are Soul disease. All 
alcholics are primarily of this class, and then 
gradually become both Soul and body. The 
reason why which can be given. All so-called 
neurosthenics are purely soul disease, which 
will be further explained when taking up the 
various plans of treatment, for freedom. There 
are many more that could be mentioned that is 
solely of this class, but sufficient has been said to 
show you, the class of patients who are suffering 
with Soul disease, and the treatment should be 
according, and as you can plainly see, they are not 
calling for all sorts of drugs and nostroms. When 
the Soul disease has developed a physical one in 
addition, then, is required, both the means of cur- 
ing a physical disease, and a Soul disease. 

We will now take up the various means of as- 
sisting, and curing disease, in the physical body, for 
as we have not known in the past, of the real ne- 
cessity of keeping this body of ours in a perfect 
condition, we must now remedy the defects, and 
from this time on, seek to preserve our body, so we 
may enjoy perfect health, in the hope, that we may 
yet in the present physical life gain the knowledge 
sufficient to reap the reward, that was the Soul's 
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life, The means used at the present time to heal 
the sick arc various, and all have more or 1< ss truth 
connected with them, yet not having the whole 
truth, and applied as an exact science, fall wide of 
the mark, and as a result in many instances, any 
one special system may become worse than useless. 
I shall endeavor to show my readers, some things 
that will at least give them points whereby they 
can reason some, if not able to gather absolutely 
the whole truth. In the first place, when man lost 
the true knowledge, and began to use his own 
opinions, which was based upon selfishness, he at 
once began making mistakes, and as I have said 
before, there is a price to pay for every violation 
of law, hence, as violations of law against the 
physical body began, sickness, and disease was 
the price. As man had lost the knowledge, 
whereby he could take advantage of the forces 
of nature direct as they were radiated from 
the heavens, there was no alternative, but to 
do as Moses had said he would have to, in 
Genesis 3:17-18 verses, where it says, "Because 
thou hast hearkened unto the voice of the wife, 
and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded 
thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed 
is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou 



eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns, also 
and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou 
shalt eat the herbs of the field." Thus you see, as 
man had lost the knowledge whereby he could live, 
only by the use of the products the earth could 
bring forth, and that cursed to him, it was neces- 
sary that he should resort to the herbs of the field, 
in order that he might increase certain forces, that 
by lack of knowledge he had exhausted in his 
body, that was producing sickness, or that he might 
add certain forces, whereby they might counteract 
forces he had accumulated in abundance, that 
might also be producing sickness. As there are 
seven specialized forces in the body, so are there 
radiated from the heavens, seven special forces, 
and these forces are stored in plants, with some 
one of the seven predominant. Man by observa- 
tion, soon came to the understanding of the laws of 
the planets in the heavens, and also of their 
vibrating forces, and also that certain plants had 
stored in them special forces or vibrations, corres- 
ponding with the vibration of a certain planet, and 
now recognizing the cause producing the inharmony 
in him, he selects the plant that will give to him 
such force as he is in need of, to supply deficiency, or 
such force as will counteract such forces, as he 



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may have a superabundance of. Thus you will 
at once, what truth lies in either, or any of the 

systems of treatment of disease by drug medication: 
At one time right, and cures, the next time wrong, 
and kills. Allopathy right one time, and Homoeo- 
pathy wrong, and the next vice-versa. So the 
advantage to the patient stands a little on the 
homoeopathy side, unless the physician is trying to 
use both systems, and then he is quite liable to 
kill sure, and the patient has but little chance. 
Furthermore, you can plainly see, none of the 
systems of medicine of today, depending upon 
drug medication, have the first principle of a 
Science connected with them, and any reasoning 
man, knows that no man is exactly alike any two 
days at a time, hence the drug that may assist him 
today, may kill tomorrow, and unless the physician 
in attendance, knows the heavens, sufficient to know 
the cause of man's inharmonies, he is not qualified 
to practice the healing art among mankind. This 
is rather harsh to say, and I am well aware it will 
strike like a thunderbolt among the profession, 
but my dear brother practitioners, I am "speaking 
by the card" and know whereof I speak, and am 
very sorry to say I practiced the old school system 
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before I woke up, but I finally dreamed it out, and 
now after having come to my senses, if the Good 
Lord will only forgive the many mistakes, I must 
certainly have made, and I made no more than any 
of the rest, I will faithfully promise to do all in my 
power in the future, to enlighten the medical 
profession and save them if possible, from making 
any more mistakes than I did. Having the know- 
ledge I do now of the planets in the Heavens, and 
knowing the laws of correspondences between man 
and them, I can now fully appreciate the meaning 
of what Hippocrates said, when he made the state- 
ment, That the man who tried to practice medicine, 
without a knowledge of Astrology, was more 
eligible to the title of fool than Physician ; also of 
Culpepper, who said, The man who tried to practice 
medicine without a knowledge of Astrology, was 
like trying to burn a lamp without oil. Paracelsus 
did not stop with any where near so genteel lan- 
guage towards the profession, but virtually cursed 
them outright for their dishonesty in dealing with 
men, and thus engendered their enmity for all 
time, even to the present day. But, sufficient to 
say, medicine as it is practiced today is no science, 
and can only become one, by the physician learning 
that mankind is in harmony, or should be, with the 



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vibrations of the planets in the heavens, and that 
the forces stored ill plants, herbs and even minerals, 
are only the stored vibrating forces of these planets 
in the heavens, and sickness or inharmony in the 
man, is only an excess or too little of the vibrating 
forces of nature, and proper prescribing, consists in 
selecting the forces stored in plants, according to 
the patients needs and requirements, as told by the 
scheme of the heavens, cast at the time of the 
beginning of patients' illness. This is the only way 
in which drug medication can become a science, 
and after it has, then bear in mind further, you 
have only as yet found a means of treating one 
division of three different classes of diseases men- 
tioned in the preceding part of the lesson, and that 
is the physicial body alone. In conjunction with 
these seven forces from nature, to assist in curing 
the physical body disease, we have the inorganic 
assistants, or what is called the inorganic salts of 
the system, just twelve in number, and correspond- 
ing to the twelve builders in the sky or twelve 
constellations. They- are mentioned by John 
the Revelator, in Revelations, 22nd chapter 
1st and 2nd verses, saying, "And he showed 
me a pure river of water of life, clear as 
crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and 



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the Lamb. In the midst of the stream of it, and 
on either side of the river, was there the tree of 
life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded 
her fruits every month; and the leaves of the tree 
were for the healing of the nations." Here are 
your twelve builders, and they go hand in hand 
with the vital forces stored in the plant, and are 
really the brick and mortar used in the building of 
the physical man, while the seven forces of Nature 
combined, as a whole, constitute the workman. 
The brick and mortar of no consequence without 
the workman, neither can the workman do without 
material to do with. These twelve inorganic salts 
have found their way into use by the profession, 
and known as the Tissue Salts, or Biochemic 
System of Medicine. But as is common with man, 
he had to stop a little short of the whole truth, in 
their use, and consider them the whole thing, 
instead of only material for the builder to work 
with, and as the builder was so often deficient in 
strength, the structure was not rebuilt as predicted 
it would be by their use, even when the materials 
were supplied, and thus the system must show a 
lack of perfection, and gradually come into dis- 
repute, when so near the truth, and besides, a 
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the one classification of disease, the body alone. 
Electricity is being used to a considerable extent at 
the present day, for the relief of Physical ills, but 
in the same manner as all the other systems of 
treatment, without any basis of reasoning in its 
application. The physician simply uses it, and 
more for the reason that it makes an impression 
upon the mind of his patient, and he collects one 
dollar for the treatment, than for the reason that the 
patient derives any benefit. Sometimes the patient 
does derive benefit, just as many times he does not. 
Why? Because the physician never takes into 
consideration, that he is using a sun force, whenever 
he is using it, neither does he take into considera- 
tion, whether his patient has an excess of electric 
force already, or too little. If the patient has an 
excess, he is certainly made worse, if too little, 
properly applied, the patient will receive benefit. 
If you are to use magnetic force, or magnetism 
instead of electricity, take the same question into 
consideration, but consider the moon influence, 
rather more than the sun. The use of colored 
glass in the treatment of disease, is equally, if not 
more efficacious than any of the drug remedies, if 
one understands the vibrations of the heavens as 
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The force of any planet can be radiated to the 
man, to increase deficiency, or to counteract excess 
of planetary vibration, the patient may contain that 
is producing inharmony, or sickness. If you do not 
believe it, put a hot feverish patient in a blue 
room, under a blue ray of sunshine, or a melan- 
cholic patient under a red ray, or the low vibrating 
negative tissue of cancer, with no intervening 
tissues to break the vibrations, under the violet ray, 
if you please, and note the results. And now we 
come to another system of treatment of disease, 
that is becoming very popular, and will be more so 
in the near future, and the Old Schools of Medicine 
are already beginning to smell powder in the near 
distance, and are working hard through state law 
enactments, to hold the enemy to their pocket- 
books in check. But my dear Brother Doctors, 
you will have to see the errors of your teachings, 
the same as the Ministers and Churches, for the 
Spirit of Truth has come, and Truth will prevail in 
this Aquarian age, inspite of all the howls you can 
put up, so the only thing you can do, is to go to 
work, and get Truth from every source you can, 
and use it. The more you fight a thing, the stronger 
it becomes, so if you would have the Old Schools of 
practice dropped entirely, keep on fighting the 



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other systems, for I now say to you, and you will 
find in the very near future, my prophesy correct, 

and there is just as much truth in their system, as 
you have got, and I will say further, with the Soul 
diseases, the Old Schools, have no system at all, as 
compared with the teachings of Christian Science. 
Drugs and medicines, will not cure any soul disease. 
Christian Science properly handled, will cure the 
large majority of them. Now the question arises, 
which class of diseases are we having the most of 
at the present age of hustle and high tension, the 
nervous diseases, or the physical? Christian Science 
can do the most for one, drugs and medicines for 
the other, hence, which is demanded the most by 
the people? Brother Doctors, bear in mind the 
people, rather than the physicians, are in the 
majority, so I say get into line, and out of that old 
rut of selfishness, and feel you have not got all the 
truth there is, and in fact but very little. Get more ! 
Get more ! And now let me say to the Christian 
Scientist, do not exceed your authority. You 
can cure by your system Soul disease, but not a 
body disease, unless the Soul is the cause primarily. 
If there are elements lacking in the body of a 
physical nature, they have got to be supplied, and 
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got to be taken from the herbs of the field, and 
salts of the earth, until at least men have arrived 
at the state of perfection, as was man in the begin- 
ning. If lime salts are lacking in a physical body, 
bone structure can never be formed, until that lime 
is supplied in some way or other. The same with 
the various structures of the body, as each one has 
its special element to work with. When you once 
get off from this earth plane, you can talk no 
body, but while here, you have got to furnish 
supplies for it, hence do not bring your system into 
disrepute by exceeding your authority, or Truth. 
With the class of diseases that are of both Soul and 
body, here both the truly scientific physician with 
his drugs and medicines, and also the know- 
ledge as is claimed to be used by the Christian 
Scientist are both required. The Soul must be 
directed right; that it will correct the inharmony 
it has already produced in the body, and the proper 
physical materials administered that the Soul may 
adjust things sooner than as though left to itself. 

The question now arises, which will yield first? 
Will the physician catch the idea, and use the 
Scientists' knowledge, or will the Scientist learn the 
action of drugs as physicians are trying to make 
them to do, and use the two, and by so doing, gain 



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the whole practice from the old Schools of Medi- 
cine. Here, and here alone, hangs the tale of the 

future of medicine. Will it be Christian Science or 
the old school? In conclusion to this series of 
lectures, and to this lesson, I now take up the 
Science of Divine Healing. This in reality, is the 
true Science that the Almighty designed man 
should use in assisting his fellow man, providing his 
system, had by any means, become out of harmony 
with itself. Many are claiming to use this Science 
at the present time, but I say to you all, make the 
test before you accept any man or woman as a 
Divine Healer. The true Divine Healer, is one 
who has made a complete overcoming of the five 
senses, the Emotions, Passions and Thought. 
When any man has become master of these in 
in himself, then he can command Elemental and 
Elementary forces in others, the rulers of all 
diseases and never before: Hence, I say, study the 
one who claims to be a Divine Healer, and see if 
he or she can master herself. All of the Soul 
diseases, are where the soul is taken possession of 
by either Elemental or Elementary forces. The 
Christian Scientist teaches you to develop your 
will, and to control thought, whereby you overcome 
the enslavement, and they cure you. Possibly they 



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do not know just the exact Modus Operandi, of 
their system, but it cures, and that is what the in- 
valid is after, and now you know why it cures. 
The Divine Healer who knows, commands the Ele- 
mental or negative force to leave at once, and it must 
go, because the true Divine Healer has developed 
the Spirit or the Christ, which is of God, and when 
God speaks all must obey. I hear some already say- 
ing, I cannot just exactly agree with the definition 
given of Soul disease, nor do I think Divine Heal- 
ing just as stated. To such I refer you to the 
greatest Divine Healer, I know of, and I think the 
world ever knew, Jesus Christ. The same School- 
ing that developed him, I am teaching. If there is 
any better, I will be only to glad to stop mine and 
accept that. I now ask you to listen to what this 
Healer, Jeses Christ, said of these Soul diseases 
as I have classified them. See (Mark 9:25-26). 
''When Jesus saw that the people came running 
together, He rebuked the foul Spirit, I charge thee 
come out of him, and enter no more into him, and 
the Spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of 
him, and he was as one dead, inasmuch that many 
said, he is dead." See also (Luke 4:41). "And 
devils also came out of many, crying out, and say- 
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rebuking them, suffered them not to speak, for 
they knew he was Christ." (Luke 7:28-29). When 
he saw Jesus he cried out, and fell down before him 
and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with 
Thee, Jesus Thou Son of God, Most High? I 
beseech Thee, torment me not. For he had com- 
manded the unclean Spirit to come out of the man, 
for oftentimes it had caught him, and he was kept 
bound in chains, and in fetters, and he brake the 
bands and was driven of the devil into the wilder- 
ness." By reading further you will see the man 
was not only possessed of one negative force, but 
many, and such is the case, in the large majority of 
cases of insanity, and the real physician to heal 
these cases, and all others of like nature, must 
necessarily be The True Divine Healer. (James 
5:14) says, "Is any man sick among you? let him 
call for the elders of the church, and let them pray 
over him anointing him with oil, in the name of the 
Lord, and the prayer of faith will save the sick, etc." 
Notice please, the Elders were the physicians in those 
days but as the Elders lost the knowledge, they ceased 
to be healers of the sick. Now the question comes to 
you, my dear readers, if you are sick or out of har- 
mony with yourself, whom will you choose to assist 
you? I have explained to you, the truth as it exists 



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today, in every system of healing at your command, 
of any importance, and now as regards your choice, 
let me say to you, follow the teachings I have 
given you throughout this course of lessons. 
First of all, use your own Thought, Reason, and 
Judgment. Ask yourself, What was the cause 
of my disease? Did I eat too much or too little? 
Have I allowed my mind to be misguided by im- 
pure or wrong thought? Have I allowed my 
emotions to become over excited in any way, 
whereby my Soul could have been taken possession 
of by some unseen entity? Reason on these ques- 
tions, and then judge who can help you the most, 
and whether or not you can do it all yourself. I have 
told you who could do the most for you, but I say 
to you, and emphatically, you can do wonderful 
things for your self by developing will, and bringing 
emotion, passion, and appetite as well, under subject- 
ion. If you have already clogged the machinery 
by overeating, stop eating at once, and drink 
plenty of water. Water is just as good to wash the 
inner side as the outer surface of the body. And 
should you finally succeed in getting your body in 
a perfectly healthy state, keep it so. Ever remember, 
perfect health enables you to enjoy the greatest 
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Perfect happiness, developes the purest soul. 
The purer the Soul, and the cleaner the body, th<* 
greater the promptings of the Lord God Almighty 
to you, through the medium of the Spirit or the 
Christ, and when you have learned by experience 
of the Truths, I have taught you in these lessons, 
and cease contracting debts against your Body, 
Soul or God, which you inevitably must pay, then 
will you have attained unto that At-One-ment, with 
your Maker, and you know what to do, in order to 
be, what the Almighty designed. 




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